Dozens killed in Nigerian school attack

DAMATURU, Nigeria -- Islamic militants set fire to a locked dormitory at a school in northern Nigeria, then shot and slit the throats of students who tried to escape through windows during a pre-dawn attack Tuesday. At least 58 students...

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Parents of dozens of wounded children have gathered at the hospital in Potiskum.
At least 46 students have been killed by a suicide bomber at a school assembly in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Potiskum, police have said.
The explosion at a boys\' school in the town is believed to have been caused by a suicide bomber dressed as a student.
The militant group Boko Haram is believed to have carried out the attack, police said.
The group has targeted schools during a deadly five-year insurgency aimed at establishing an Islamic state.
It is waging a sustained campaign to prevent children from going to school. It believes girls should not attend school and boys should only receive an Islamic education.
\'Devastating attack\'
The explosion ripped through the assembly hall at the Government Science Secondary School in Yobe state, reports say.
Police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu told the BBC Hausa service the attack had left 47 people dead, including the suicide bomber. Another 79 were wounded.
By setting off the bomb during the morning assembly, the militants clearly aimed to kill as many students as possible.
Few of the attacks here are ever claimed by any group but Boko Haram will once again be suspected. The jihadists have carried out particularly brutal attacks on schools before.
Chibok is known in many parts of the world because of April\'s mass abduction of girls from that remote village. But there have been many other horrific attacks on schools which have received less attention - including last February\'s raid on Buni Yadi, in Yobe state.
Dozens of boys were burnt to ...

Parents of dozens of wounded children have gathered at the hospital in Potiskum.
At least 46 students have been killed by a suicide bomber at a school assembly in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Potiskum, police have said.
The explosion at a boys\' school in the town is believed to have been caused by a suicide bomber dressed as a student.
The militant group Boko Haram is believed to have carried out the attack, police said.
The group has targeted schools during a deadly five-year insurgency aimed at establishing an Islamic state.
It is waging a sustained campaign to prevent children from going to school. It believes girls should not attend school and boys should only receive an Islamic education.
\'Devastating attack\'
The explosion ripped through the assembly hall at the Government Science Secondary School in Yobe state, reports say.
Police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu told the BBC Hausa service the attack had left 47 people dead, including the suicide bomber. Another 79 were wounded.
By setting off the bomb during the morning assembly, the militants clearly aimed to kill as many students as possible.
Few of the attacks here are ever claimed by any group but Boko Haram will once again be suspected. The jihadists have carried out particularly brutal attacks on schools before.
Chibok is known in many parts of the world because of April\'s mass abduction of girls from that remote village. But there have been many other horrific attacks on schools which have received less attention - including last February\'s raid on Buni Yadi, in Yobe state.
Dozens of boys were burnt to ...

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Russia: President Putin warns the public of a coming recession and says Russia will be open for foreign investment in his annual state of the nation address.
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Russia's President Putin warns the public of a coming recession - VOA60 World 12-04-2014

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Russia: President Putin warns the public of a coming recession and says Russia will be open for foreign investment in his annual state of the nation address.
Chechnya: Rebel gunmen shot their way into heavily fortified Grozny in a nighttime raid that leaves more than a dozen dead.
Ukraine: Ukraine’s parliament has approved the appointment of three foreigners to key ministerial positions.
India: Five children are dead and more than two dozen injured when a school bus was hit by a train at an unguarded railway crossing.
Philippines: Super Typhoon Hagupit expected to reach Eastern Samar province Saturday, schools and offices closed, evacuations are underway....

Parents of dozens of wounded children have gathered at the hospital in Potiskum.
At least 46 students have been killed by a suicide bomber at a school assembly in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Potiskum, police have said.
The explosion at a boys\' school in the town is believed to have been caus

Russia: President Putin warns the public of a coming recession and says Russia will be open for foreign investment in his annual state of the nation address.
Chechnya: Rebel gunmen shot their way into heavily fortified Grozny in a nighttime raid that leaves more than a dozen dead.
Ukraine: Ukra

Boko Haram members on Sunday kidnapped nearly 100 men and boys from a remote village in northern Nigeria.
According to witnesses who hid in the bush for days and travelled some 180 kilometers to escape the raid, Boko Haram members arrived at Doron Baga village at around 5:30 a.m. shouting “Allah Ak

Reports in Nigeria say militants from the Boko Haram group are suspected of carrying out another mass kidnapping of women and children in the country\'s northeast.
Security forces say the latest attack was on Sunday, but it takes days for information to get through from remote regions.
It is report

The mass kidnap on the night of April 14 sparked headlines worldwide -- but it was far from the first misstep in Nigeria\'s war against Boko Haram. Interviews with witnesses to the kidnapping, Nigerian military and security officials, Western diplomats and counter-terrorism experts, highlight a serie